Finding the forum on IB exactly as it was the day the site went down (February 25, 2007) is like a time capsule. I was blabbing about reading "Fingerprints of the Gods" and talking about going to Egypt, but I hadn't even received my passport yet. And now I'm married to Ramy, who was the entire reason I was going in the first place!
Some of the photos I took & had posted on IB are now for sale on Etsy.
Anyway, seeing the forum and UE announcements like "MASONIC TEMPLE DEMOLITION SET FOR 10/10" made me wonder just how many announcements I would have made throughout 2007, and it probably would have been something like this.
1. Ramy and I got married in the Wauregan Hotel!!!!!
Top photo, Wauregan Hotel Ballroom, 1920
Middle, Wauregan Hotel Ballroom decay, 2003
Bottom, Wauregan Hotel Ballroom Grand Opening Gala, November 18, 2006
Our Wedding in the Ballroom, November 18, 2007
Ok... enough shameless shots of us. But it's true and it's one of the reasons why I chose the ballroom for the wedding!2. Birdhouse Mobile Home is gone.
June 27, 2003
December 5, 2004
July 20, 2005
I visited this mobile home twice, and was surprised to find it missing on June 17.
3. Butch Fox House is GONE.
I kind of saw this one coming, especially after finding a huge dumpster outside the house when Zack and I stopped to check it out on April 30, 2006. It came down some time during the summer when I was working 2 jobs and didn't check up on it all the time. It had been abandoned since roughly 1970.
June 27, 2003
June 20, 2004
April 30, 2006
May 1, 2007
Last photos of the Butch Fox House
Last photos of the Butch Fox House
The imminent end of the Butch Fox House was pretty obvious the last time I saw it. This was formerly located on Watson Rd. in Preston, CT.
So that's about it. For now.
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